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The key to survival in the post-Affordable Care Act (ACA) world is to make sure the organization has a vigorous corporate enterprise risk management process, says James Ron Kennedy, MHA, ARM, AIC, vice president for risk management and patient safety at Louisiana Medical Mutual Insurance Co. (LAMMICO) in Metairie.
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Risk managers and malpractice defense and plaintiffs attorneys are divided over whether the implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) will have a direct impact on the number of malpractice cases.
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Operating a small hospital doesnt mean you cant think big. Ellenville Regional Hospital (ERH), a 25-bed rural hospital in Wawarsing, NY, is enjoying success with a medication reconciliation and patient safety project that would be the envy of any large teaching institution by reducing medication-related events to a very low 0.1 occurrences per 1,000 doses dispensed.
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News: On Nov. 26, 2006, a 49-year-old man from Howard Beach, NY, underwent a heart transplant at a New York City hospital. Less than a week later, on Dec. 2, 2006, the patients new heart suffered a massive hemorrhage.
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Many adverse events in hospitals are never reported to state adverse event reporting systems, according to a recent report by the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (HHS OIG).
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News: In 2007, a woman in labor was given oxytocin to help speed up her delivery and increase the frequency and intensity of her contractions.
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IT security is becoming more important in healthcare every day, but the old ways of educating employees and physicians on this topic are insufficient, say leading IT security experts. Risk managers should consider entirely revamping the way IT security is taught and monitored, they say.
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It is possible that the increased preventative care provided by the Affordable Care Act (ACA) could even reduce the number of patients seeking emergent or late-term medical care, thereby reducing medical malpractice claims, but that situation is far from certain, says James Ron Kennedy, MHA, ARM, AIC, vice president for risk management and patient safety at Louisiana Medical Mutual Insurance Co. (LAMMICO) in Metairie.
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